Ner Yisrael Community

Name

Ner Yisrael Community⁽ⁱ⁾

Address:

Ner Yisrael Community Centre, The Crest (off Brent Street), Hendon, London NW4 2HY, since 1986⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾

The synagogue building and premises have been extended on a number of occasions to accommodate growth in congregational numbers and to incorporate multiple religious services and educational programmes.

Previous (from 1984 to 1986) services were held at Jews' College, Albert Road, Hendon NW4.^(iv)

Formed:

1984^(iv)

Status:

Active

Ritual:

Ashkenazi Orthodox

Affiliation:

None. Independent.

Website:

https://www.neryisrael.co.uk/

Former Affiliated Congregation:

The former Ner Yisrael Borehamwood - Beis Yisrael

Minister: (To view a short profile of a minister - hold the cursor over his name.)

Rabbi Dr. Alan A. Kimche (and Rebbetzen Via Kimche) - from 1984 until 2019^(vii)

Rabbi Eliezer Zobin (and Rebbetzen Aviva Zobin) - assistant rabbi from 2015 until 2019; senior rabbi from 2019 until present (February 2021)^(viii)

Membership Data:

National Reports & Surveys^(xi)

1990 - 56 members (households)

1996 - 140 members (comprising 122 households, 11 individual male and 7 individual female members)

2010 - listed as having 200 to 299 members (by household)

2016 - listed as having 300 to 399 members (by household)

Local Government District:

Hendon, a residential suburb in Northwest London, has a substantial Jewish minority, is in the London Borough of Barnet (formed 1965).

Bibliography -  Barnet

Registration District (BMD):

Barnet^(xii) - Link to Register Office website

Cemetery & Burial
Information:

The congregation has an arrangement with the Adath Yisroel Burial Society, an affiliate of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, whereby a member of the congregation has the option, for an annual fee, in additional to the annual synagogue membership fee, to receive family cover from the Adath Yisrael Burial Society.^(xiii)

For Adath Yisroel Burial Society cemeteries, see Cemeteries of the UOHC.